I got about 15 ‘joins’ last night, many with unlikely names, most from Russia, and not a personal letter to me in the lot, I’m sure. I did some clean-out of the approval queue last night and if you’re a real person and got ‘denied’ write to me…otherwise I have to assume you’re a robot. If you’re shy, all you have to say is “Hi, I’m [your name] from [place] and I want to join the site.”
Trying to keep this a fun and friendly place with no ads for Caribbean vacations or Viagra.
well, two more of us have written me, and are in. Please, please, please, I want to be sure ‘you’ are ‘you’ before I give you the keys to the front door. It’s no biggie, just a ‘Hi, I’m real!’ sort of hello.
CommentIt’s a good protocol, and circumvents those squiggly visual or muffled auditory captcha thingies that aren’t very accessible, especially to visually-impaired (and slightly hearing-impaired) folk like me. I vet applications for the ReadAssist free ebook program at Baen, and I get a lot of those Russian nonsense names. If I notice the name contains a bunch of weird characters strung together into only one word instead of two for first and last names, it’s an instant reject.
Thanks for the note.